Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.
I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.
I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.
I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.
If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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